Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda

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Bill Clinton and Al Gore among those calling for fresh focus on issue that neither candidate mentioned in televised debates

The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy's wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign....

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